Lightroom Bird Name Keywords is a list of what appears to be all of the bird names on the planet – over 10,000 bird names sorted by species along with the Latin name entered hierarchally as Lightroom CC keywords. The list is searchable within Lightroom CC so finding a portion of the name or species generally gets you to the correct name and spelling.
I found the list of names from the Lightroom Keyword list blog however Lightroom does not support this list very well because if you attempted to find “yellow warbler” it found all keywords with the word “yellow” or “warbler”. Given that the list contains every bird species on the planet, the list of yellow goes on for hundreds of birds.
To resolve this I performed a mass edit and changed the blanks to “_”. Therefore searching for “yellow_warbler” finds the following:
Credit: The source for the original list of names came from: http://lightroom-keyword-list-project.blogspot.com/2013/12/birds-20.html
Placing a checkmark on the appropriate name then loads the following into the selected image(s).
Note the “will export” has been selected.
